Wikidata:Status updates/2021 03 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-03-08.

Events

• Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube)
• Past: Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 2021-03-06 , Taipei (Q1867), Taichung (Q245023), Tainan (Q140631) and online stream (FB and Youtube)
• Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-03-08 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[1]
• Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
• Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #53, March 14

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • "Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
• Papers
  • Open Natural Products Research: Curation and Dissemination of Biological Occurrences of Chemical Structures through Wikidata
  • A paper describing COVIWD: COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard
• Videos
  • Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
  • Working hour on items of bibliographic interest in Wikidata (in Italian) -YouTube
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 -Youtube Live
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook

Tool of the week

• Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has now items about nine million people: 99,991,000,000 to do (project chat)
• A new browser for Wikidata is available: the SLING knowledge base browser by User:Mringgaard. It is lightning fast and entirely based on modern Web components.
• Help choose focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia. Nominations should be submitted by April 7, and the decision will be made by April 14 by the teams taking your comments into account.
• Help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting ends before Monday March 15th 23:59 UTC.
• PetScan can now generate KML map overlay data. E.g. University towns in Germany. (Map view)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: supplement to, seismic classification, reissue of, staking percentage, affiliated worker organisation, demographics of topic, assessment outcome, notation writer
  • External identifiers: Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Obituaries Australia ID, XXXBios female performer ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, Whiskybase distillery ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, Women Australia ID, Labour Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Pontifical University of Salamanca ID, EEVA author ID, Nauvoo Community Project ID, Cyprus Library ID, Cyprus University of Technology ID, Amathus ID, European University Cyprus ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, Resident Advisor club ID, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, CPC-PR ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: verbal ability, 易玩應用程序標識符, earned run average, named place on map, inhabitants of topic, consequence of text, writing style, applicant, co-applicant, Cantonese romanisation, repairability
  • External identifiers: MeSH qualifier ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava person ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, Museum of the jewish people ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona author ID, Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, PorcelanaBrasil ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, JaneladaHistoria ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, Inforegister ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID
• Query examples:
  • Deceased people with verified Twitter accounts (source)
  • members of Ludlamshöhle, a society in Vienna (1819-1826) (source)
  • Things discovered or invented by women (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales (WD:WP EMEW)
• Newest database reports:
  • Gadget usage statistics - Includes gadgets enabled in preferences or common.js

Development

• Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
• Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
• Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
• Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!